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The Ditchley Park Cabinet
$895,159.66
£650,000
€760,317.28
CA$1,224,533.65
A$1,332,668.94
CHF 706,446.57
MX$16,033,025.58
NOK 8,960,011.07
SEK 8,197,782.63
DKK 5,680,146.09
About the Item
A MAGNIFICENT BRASS-MOUNTED PIETRA DURA, EBONY AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND, DUTCH, CIRCA 1650-80, THE PIETRA DURA PANELS FLORENTINE, MID 17TH CENTURY.
Inset overall with paired Florentine pietra dura panelled drawers depicting parrots and fruits on a pale Alberese limestone ground. The central door inlaid with an alabastro vase of flowers, flanked by breccia di Francia columns with gilt-bronze Corinthian capitals flanking a broken pediment centred by a demi-lune panel of a bear and a monkey, the stiles applied with ribbon-tied repoussé festoons of flowers and fruit, the sides with fielded panels. The lower frieze drawer panels depicting two dogs and a bear and various fruits, flanked by repoussé lion masks. The later stand with spiral twist columns linked by a moulded stretcher on bun feet.
87.5 in. (222 cm.) high; 62 in. (157 cm.) wide; 23.75 in. (60 cm.) deep.
Provenance
George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (1718-1772): inventoried on his death in 'Lord Lichfield's Chamber' at Ditchley Park, ‘A fine large Cabinet, with a curious inlaid marble front’;
Thence by descent to Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon CH FBA (1844-1932);
Thence by descent.
Literature
Tessa Murdoch, Noble Households, Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses, Cambridge, 2006, p. 156
- Dimensions:Height: 87.5 in (222.25 cm)Width: 62 in (157.48 cm)Depth: 23.75 in (60.33 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1680
- Condition:Additions or alterations made to the original: The later stand with spiral twist columns linked by a moulded stretcher on bun feet. Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU943942549472
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